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Old 05-23-2020, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Michael Charles View Post
I have an idea regarding unwanted solicitations for credit card applications or any junk mail with self addressed postage paid envelopes included. Take a piece of the JUNK MAIL literature WITHOUT your name or any of your personal info on it and putting it into the return envelope and mail it back to them. If hundreds of thousands of these postage paid empty envelopes get sent back to them they will be overwhelmed with our JUNK MAIL that they might just adapt new techniques! If nothing else they might need to hire more people to open these empty envelopes!
I used to do this but included a page with my name & address. In fact I'd stuff extra pages in the rerun envelope to make it weigh more. Didn't work - still got the junk from the same people.